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Michael Bird born in Paderborn, West Germany, is academic dean at Ridley College. His favorite movie is Return of the Jedi, he wants a dog named Nero, his favorite smell is samsara perfume, his first job was at a video store, and when not engaged in academic rigor he enjoys jogging.

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90s Johnny Cash is magical. The Mystery of Life

90s Johnny Cash is magical.
The Mystery of Life is the 77th album by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1991, and his last for Mercury Records. The songs featured are culled from both recent sessions and from leftovers from Cash's first Mercury session in 1986 for the album Johnny Cash is Coming to Town.

“Somewhere in central Pennsylvania there is a wa

“Somewhere in central Pennsylvania there is a warm and inviting labyrinth called Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Byron and Beth Borger, the caretakers of Hearts & Minds, have worked there tirelessly for over three decades to create a space for serious, reflective readers. The Borgers are committed to helping their customers live out Christ’s Lordship in the midst of our highly secularized, postmodern culture. They have carried out this mission through their shop, mail-order services, and book tables at conferences around the country. Their unremitting efforts to offer quality books for thinking biblically about every area of life has inspired a volume on this, their bookstore’s thirty-fifth anniversary. One of the many ways Hearts & Minds has blessed their customers has been through BookNotes. In those reviews, Byron shares colorful anecdotes and passionate arguments for why to read books, and amplified lists suggesting what books to read. In this book, the Borger’s friends have adopted the BookNotes model and offer a defense for books in their spheres of interest, along with a number of titles for the reader to consider investing their time in for deeper study.” – From “A Book For Hearts & Minds: What You Should Read and Why”
“I’ve found Borger’s vocation to be more similar to a pharmacist than a bookseller. People come to Hearts and Minds with one deficiency or another. After some listening, Borger prescribes just the right supplement of Al Wolters or Richard Middleton or an obscure gem hidden in a tacky dust jacket… Byron is the Michael Jordan of synthesizing ideas. Each [“BookNotes”] post is rife with connections: connections between art and faith, between politics and science, between gardening and prayer. Byron is a true interdisciplinarian, a renascence man if ever there was one.” – Dustin Messer
Everyone loves an American institution. You have CBGBs in NY (started off The Ramones, The Dead Boys, etc.). The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The Jack Daniels distillery Lynchburg. Wrigley field in Chicago, and you have Hearts & Minds books. An American institution to be sure. There are book stores, and then there is the Hearts and Minds Bookstore.

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